Carnival touch to the opening ceremony

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Garry Sobers, the greatest all-round cricketer the game has seen, was the perfect choice to open the World Cup last night in a spectacular ceremony designed to show that whatever happens on the field over the next six weeks, West Indies are the undisputed champions when it comes to putting on a carnival.

The scheduled three-hour extravaganza costing $2.5million (about £1.3 million) and featuring more than 1,000 performers, was due to be staged at the new multipurpose stadium in Trelawny, on the north coast of Jamaica where West Indies crumbled to 85 all out in their final warm-up match against